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Introduction To Racialized Narratives For Children, C. Richard King

CLCWeb: Comparative Literature and Culture

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Children's Film As Social Practice, J. Zornado

CLCWeb: Comparative Literature and Culture

In his paper "Children's Film as Social Practice," J. Zornado argues that the animated feature is a genre distinct in its own right, and, although overlooked by film criticism up to now, deserves rigorous, scholarly attention. Zornado employs the term "iconology" to develop a foundation for a critical methodology indebted to Althusser, Foucault, and Lacan as well as contemporary film criticism. Iconology of the animated feature film is the study of the meaning systems of the dominant culture and the ways in which such systems are inscribed into all kinds of social practice geared, specifically, to seduce and inform the …

Children's Video Games As Interactive Racialization, Cathlena Martin

CLCWeb: Comparative Literature and Culture

Cathlena Martin explores in her paper "Children's Video Games as Interactive Racialization" selected children's video games. Martin argues that children's video games often act as reinforcement for the games' television and film counterparts and their racializing characteristics and features. In Martin's analysis the video games discussed represent media through which to analyze racial identities and ideologies. In making the case for positive female minority leads in children's video games, Martin examines the games and franchises of Rugrats and Dora the Explorer. She argues that the influx of games with a greater diversity of minority female characters has only been a …

A Critical Discourse Analysis Of Representation Of Asian Indian Folk Tales In Us-American Children's Literature, Sudeshna Roy

CLCWeb: Comparative Literature and Culture

In her article "A Critical Discourse Analysis of Representation of Asian Indian Folk Tales in US-American Children's Literature," Sudeshna Roy explores the representation of India in U.S. children's picture books by interpreting prevailing images of the subcontinent and its peoples and their impact on children's understandings. Roy analyzes three key elements -- titles, illustrations, and text -- identifying a set of predominant themes: nature and wild animals, poverty and hardship, spiritual hermits, and wit and common sense wisdom. From these findings, Roy suggests that Eurocentric imperial ideologies continue to inform the formulation of race, gender, and nation in U.S. children's …

A Bibliography Of Work On Racial Narratives For Children, Marie Drews

CLCWeb: Comparative Literature and Culture

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Embedding And Detecting Machine Readable Data In Images Printed By Electrophotographic Printers, Vivek Shah

Department of Electrical and Computer Engineering Masters Theses

Watermarking is a technique used to authenticate and distinguish original documents or images from the copied or forged ones. Many watermarking methods have been developed and are being used for printed documents and images. Though these current watermarking techniques can distinguish between original and forged documents, it is not possible to identify the source of the forged and counterfeit documents, knowledge of which is required in some cases to stop future forgeries. In this thesis we propose a machine readable watermarking technique for images, halftoned using clustered-dot halftoning technique and printed on electrophotographic printer, that can, not only identify forged …

Discovering The Library: Finding The Hidden Barriers To Success Using The Catalog, Ellen Safley

Proceedings of the IATUL Conferences

Over the past two years, the Catalog Committee at the University of Texas at Dallas used a verbal protocol analysis to research how students use the catalog system to find known items, to locate materials on a subject, and to evaluate the design and appearance of the interface. The research is attempting to evaluate the thought process and effectiveness of how students use the catalog system. The Library is conducting its third session to evaluate the changes made in the discovery process. During these sessions, the Library will incorporate a means to collect both the audio portion of the person’s …

Self-Discovery Through Digital Portfolios: A Holistic Approach To Developing New Library And Information Professionals, Gillian Hallam

Proceedings of the IATUL Conferences

Library educators face ever-increasing challenges in terms of delivering a curriculum that will adequately prepare students for the dynamic digital environment they will be working in. Graduates require a balance of discipline specific knowledge and personal attributes that will enable them to transition smoothly into employment and plan their future careers. At Queensland University of Technology (QUT) the postgraduate library and information management program has introduced a whole-of-course approach to professional practice studies, using an ePortfolio to support the students on their learning journey.

The subject ITN280 Professional Practice has been developed as an overarching unit in the Master of …

Leveraging Leverage - How Strategies Can Really Work For You, Anne Horn, Sue Owen

Proceedings of the IATUL Conferences

The theme of the new Strategic Plan 2008-12 for Deakin University is the delivery of effective partnerships with a key focus on enhancing student experience. The Library has a key role in seeking new and improved ways to support the university’s teaching, learning, scholarship and research activities. Investigations of Web 2.0 technologies have pinpointed suitable applications to enhance student engagement with the Library and with information resources. Along with digital initiatives, the Library is creating intelligent collaborative and contemporary spaces to support and enhance students’ informal learning. Spaces will accommodate student-centred problem-based pedagogy and offer options for interactive group learning, …

Web 2.0 For Learning Discovery, Joan Lippincott

Proceedings of the IATUL Conferences

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Enticing The Google Generation: Web 2.0, Social Networking And University Students, Philip G. Kent

Proceedings of the IATUL Conferences

Much has been written about Gen X, Y and Google Generation students in the higher education sector. Student-centred approaches, new pedagogies, a focus on quality management, information and learning commons initiatives all evidence greater attention to the generational needs of the Google Generation. New technologies and applications have also been harnessed to meet students in their ‘own space’.

Traditional library systems are being enhanced to include Web 2.0 functionality. Universities and their Libraries are establishing a presence in social network sites (eg Facebook, YouTube).

The paper analyses these trends, takes stock of these initiatives in the university library environment and …

Digital Library Initiatives In India: A Proposal For Open Distance Learning, Sujatha Gurram

Proceedings of the IATUL Conferences

Information and communication technologies have brought significant changes in all-round development of the society through transmission of information. Information is the fulcrum for power and wealth and very crucial for economic and social development of the society. In India, a number of digital library initiatives and digitization programmes have been initiated across the country. Most of the digital library initiatives are government funded. The Ministry of Communications and Information technology has also established the Digital Library of India. This paper discusses various problems, challenges and issues involved in design and development of digital libraries in India.

The paper highlights the …

Pixels & Partnerships: Digital Publishing And Co-Operative Scholarship In Australian And Britsih Imperial History, Robin Walsh

Proceedings of the IATUL Conferences

The efforts of libraries and archival institutions in collecting and curating dispersed collections of original letters, journals, pictorial sources, and realia/artefacts are essential contributions towards research and scholarship. Recent technological advances in digitization offer important new possibilities in the reproduction of documents and images as well as enhanced access to dispersed institutional holdings.

The Lachlan & Elizabeth Macquarie Archive (LEMA) is a co-operative inter-institutional website project based at Macquarie University Library, in partnership with key Australian and UK institutions. The aim of the LEMA Project is to create a digital research gateway to the writings of the Lachlan Macquarie (1761-1824), …

Ambient Findability And Structured Serendipity: Enjhanced Resource Discovery For Full Text Collections, Alison Stevenson, Conal Tuohy, Jamie Norrish

Proceedings of the IATUL Conferences

University Libraries manage increasingly large collections of full text digital resources. These might be repositories of born digital research outputs, e-reserves collections or online libraries of material digitised to provide open access to significant texts. Whatever the content of the material, the structured data of full text resources can be exploited to enhance research discovery. The implicit connections and cross-references between books and papers, which occur in all print collections, can be made explicit in a collection of electronic texts. Correctly encoded and exposed they create a framework to support resource discovery and navigation both within and between texts by …

Creating A Culture Of Data Integration And Interoperability: Librarians And Earth Science Faculty Collaborate On A Geoinformatics Course, Michael Fosmire, Chris Miller

Proceedings of the IATUL Conferences

One aspect of the development of an e-infrastructure for research discovery that is often overlooked is the human element. Data is only as interoperable as the scientists who are willing to meet data standards and share their work with others. Information literacy in the data world has at least as many challenges as it does in the world of documents. For example, the provenance of data, who collected it, how they collected it, and whether and how it has been verified, are all very important factors for researchers to consider before incorporating external data into their analyses. With this in …

Going Digital, Experiences At The Wellcome Library, Dave Thompson

Proceedings of the IATUL Conferences

The Wellcome Library^[1] acknowledges that born digital material will form part of its research collections. The question is, how do we implement this? This paper talks to the experiences of the Wellcome Library as it develops and implements its strategy to acquire and manage born digital material. It draws on our experiences of working with ’real’ material, and looks at the pragmatic ways in which workflows and practices have been developed and the archivists successfully engaged in working with this new medium.

Digital Strategy: European Perspectives, Paul Ayris

Proceedings of the IATUL Conferences

The purpose of this paper is to examine the role and content of digital strategies in European research libraries. The paper will look at current developments in UCL (University College London) in the UK in terms of strategic directions at an institutional level. It will then examine how UCL Library Services is developing its own strategy to meet these institutional objectives. The paper will look at changing digital architectures, which reflect the new emphasis on student-centred learning and research. Three types of e-content will be examined, and the success or otherwise of libraries in delivering this type of content examined. …

Creating A Digital New Zealand: New Zealand's Digital Content Strategy, Opportunities And Challenges For The Education And Research Sectors, Penny Carnaby

Proceedings of the IATUL Conferences

The World Summit on the Information Society (WSIS) in Geneva 2000 http://www.itu/int/wsis/geneva/index.html and Tunis http://www.itu.int/wsis/tunis/index.html

set the agenda for the development of e-strategies in a number of countries. Drawing from the strategic vision and inspiration of WSIS New Zealand launched its own Digital Strategy in May 2005 http://digitalstratregy.govt.nz. This was a far reaching all of country digital vision impacting on communities, business and local and central government throughout the country. The NZ Digital Strategy argued that there were three components that would define the digital environment. These are referred to as the 3 C’s framework these are connection, content …

Digitization Initiatives: A Reconnaissance Of The Global Landscape, Marinus Swanepoel

Proceedings of the IATUL Conferences

Digitization has become quite a buzzword around libraries and library organizations. Conferences, symposia and workshops on digitization are becoming more popular and many general conferences feature a technology or digitization track.

A factor contributing to the popularity of digitization is that the technology required for basic digitization is very affordable. It is therefore not uncommon to find an under funded enthusiast doing excellent work, making content available through a free hosting service on the Internet and using only a simple digital camera and/or scanner, bought for a couple of hundred dollars.

The proliferation of local digitization initiatives great and small …

Designs For Optical Cloaking With High-Order Transformations, Wenshan Cai, Uday K. Chettiar, Alexander V. Kildishev, V. M. Shalaev

Birck and NCN Publications

Recent advances in metamaterial research have provided us a blueprint for realistic cloaking capabilities, and it is crucial to develop practical designs to convert concepts into real-life devices. We present two structures for optical cloaking based on high-order transformations for TM and TE polarizations respectively. These designs are possible for visible and infrared wavelengths. This critical development builds upon our previous work on nonmagnetic cloak designs and high-order transformations.

Workshop: Healthcare Engineering And Health Services Research: Building Bridges, Breaking Barriers;, Stephen Roberts, Reha Uzsoy, Julie Ivy, Brian Denton

RCHE Publications

Few would dispute that the rapidly escalating cost of health care is one of the most pressing issues facing our nation today. Even a cursory review of the media reveals intense public concern over a healthcare system that can use the most advanced technology to miraculous therapeutic effect, but whose emergent behavior is far from ideal. Rapidly rising healthcare costs threaten the competitiveness of U. S. manufacturing and service companies in the global econmy, creating intense pressure to move offshore. Indeed one can make the case that the best way to help competitiveness prospects for U. S. industries as a …

Airline Quality Rating 2008, Brent D. Bowen, Dean E. Headley

Airline Quality Rating Report

The Airline Quality Rating (AQR) was developed and first announced in early 1991 as an objective method for assessing airline quality on combined multiple performance criteria. This current report, the Airline Quality Rating 2008, reflects monthly Airline Quality Rating scores for calendar year 2007. AQR socres for 2007 are based on 15 elements in four major areas that focus on airline performance aspects important to air travel consumers.

The Airline Quality Rating 2008 is a summary of month-by-month quality ratings for U.S. airlines that are required to report performance by virtue of havign at least 1% of domestic scheduled-service passenger …

People Profile: Bonnie Klein, Editor

Against the Grain

No abstract provided.

Book Reviews -- Monographic Musings, Debbie Vaughn

Against the Grain

No abstract provided.

Something To Think About -- It's The Little Things!, Mary E. (Tinker) Massey

Against the Grain

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I Google, You Google, We Google..., Aline Soules

Against the Grain

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Case Studies In Collection And Technical Services -- Case Study Eight: The Search Committee -- So Many Resumes, How Do I Do My Part?, Anne Langley

Against the Grain

No abstract provided.

Google And The Search For Federal Government Information, Bonnie Klein

Against the Grain

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If Rumors Were Horses, Katina Strauch

Against the Grain

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Using Google In Technical Services, Carol H. Jewell

Against the Grain

No abstract provided.